The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion of the National Hockey League. Lord Stanley of Preston, then governor general of Canada, donated the trophy in 1892, having purchased a silver bowl from a London silversmith for ten guineas. Originally called the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, it was first awarded in 1893 to the Montreal Hockey Club and began as a challenge trophy contested among the top amateur teams in Canada, with professional teams becoming eligible in 1906. Between 1915 and 1926 it was contested between the champions of rival professional leagues; after 1926 the National Hockey League became the sole major league and the Cup became its de facto championship trophy, a status formalized in 1947 when the league gained control of it through an agreement with the trophy's trustees. Unlike other major North American sports trophies, a new cup is not made each year: since 1924 the winning team's players, coaches and staff have had their names engraved on the trophy's bands, and since 1995 each member of the winning team has been given a day to keep the Cup personally during the offseason. It has gone unawarded only twice, in 1919 because of an influenza epidemic and in 2005 because of a league-wide lockout. The Montreal Canadiens hold the record for the most championships won.
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Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club
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Traded to the Los Angeles Kings where he played eight seasons, he led them to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final, and he is credited with popularizing hockey in California.
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He won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings four times and won six Hart Trophies as the NHL's most valuable player.
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With Orr, the Bruins won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1970 and 1972.
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Drafted first overall by the Penguins in the 1984 NHL entry draft, Lemieux led Pittsburgh to consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 1991 and 1992.
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Crosby also led Pittsburgh to Stanley Cup championships in 2016 and 2017, becoming the third player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) in consecutive years.
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In 2018, the Capitals won the Stanley Cup for the first time, and Ovechkin was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for most valuable player in the 2018 playoffs.
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Between 1971 and 1991, Lafleur played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons, and five Stanley Cup championships in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 (all with the Canadiens).
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Selected 113th overall in the 1989 NHL entry draft by Vancouver, he began his NHL career in the 1991-92 season, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie before leading the NHL in goal-scoring in 1993-94 and helping the Canucks to the 1994 Stanley Cup Final.
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His Stanley Cup wins, Olympic gold medals, and World Championship wins make him a member of the sport's prestigious Triple Gold Club.
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Lidström was the first European-born-and-trained captain of a Stanley Cup-winning team.
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Richard was a member of eight Stanley Cup championship teams, including a league record five straight between 1956 and 1960; he was the team's captain for the last four.
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McDavid won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs, becoming only the sixth player, second skater, and first since Jean-Sébastien Giguère in 2003, to win the award despite not winning the Stanley Cup.
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He is the only player in NHL history to win the Conn Smythe Trophy (the award given to the Most Valuable Player in the Stanley Cup playoffs) three times, the only one to do so in three different decades (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s), and the only one to do so for two different teams.
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He was named recipient of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in 2005-06 for perseverance and dedication to the game and was a member of the Ducks' 2007 Stanley Cup championship team.
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He won the Stanley Cup five times, all with the Oilers, as one of just seven players to be part of all five Cup-winning teams with Edmonton.
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He was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams, 1999 with the Dallas Stars and 2002 with the Detroit Red Wings.
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While with the Red Wings in 2002, Hašek became the first European-trained starting goaltender to win the Stanley Cup.
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The Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 24 times, more times than any other franchise, having earned 23 victories since the founding of the NHL, and 22 since 1927, when NHL teams became the only ones to compete for the Stanley Cup.
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The club had two recognized dynasties which spanned the 1946-47 to 1950-51 seasons and the 1961-62 to 1966-67 seasons, during which the Leafs won a combined eight of eleven Stanley Cup championships.
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They have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth-most of any team with the Blackhawks (trailing the Canadiens, Maple Leafs, and Red Wings, with 24, 13, and 11, respectively), and tied for second-most for an NHL team based in the United States.
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With their Stanley Cup wins in 2016 and 2017, the Penguins became the first back-to-back champions in the salary cap era.
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